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Designart Tokyo transforms the city into a museum of creativity
Designart Tokyo presents global design highlights through a series of exhibitions involving global creative talent and traditional Japanese craft
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Scandinavian design meets Japanese heritage in OEO Studio’s Tokyo apartment
OEO Studio has collaborated with Japanese property developer ReBita on a luxury new apartment at Tokyo’s Opus Arisugawa Terrace & Residence
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teamLab: how a Tokyo art collective pioneered an immersive art boom
With an operatic intervention and a show at Pace Geneva, teamLab, the now-700-strong Tokyo-based collective that blazed a trail for experiential, tech-fuelled art, continues to value ‘physical interaction in physical space’
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Anne Imhof: body language as tool, canvas and concept
Anne Imhof is one of five radical artists chosen by Michèle Lamy for Wallpaper’s 25th Anniversary Issue ‘5x5’ project. In the midst of Imhof’s carte blanche at Paris’ Palais de Tokyo, we explore how she has redefined the concept of body language
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Philippe Fragnière captures the myth and magic of mountain life
In ʻBalancing Actʼ at SAI Gallery, Tokyo, Swiss photographer Philippe Fragnière explores the mythologies of his native Alps
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Robots track Tokyo 2020 Olympic highlights to create public art
In The Constant Gardeners, Jason Bruges Studio’s new public art installation, four robotic ‘gardeners’ use live data from the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games to create striking artworks
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Last chance to see: portraits of David Bowie by Masayoshi Sukita
On view until 11 October, ‘Sukita: Rare and Unseen' at Blitz Gallery, Tokyo reflects on the career of Japanese photographer Masayoshi Sukita, known for iconic portraits of rock music royalty, from David Bowie to Iggy Pop and Jimi Hendrix
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Snøhetta designs experimental culinary space in Tokyo
Snøhetta co-founder Craig Dykers discusses the architecture of Burnside – a Tokyo event space for art and design outfit En One and the Bronx chef collective Ghetto Gastro
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Tom Blachford creates a cinematic dystopia from Japan’s brutalist past
In a new chapter of his series Nihon Noir, the night-crawling photographer captures the futuristic metropolises of Tokyo and Kyoto to dystopian effect
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Swedish studio Claesson Koivisto Rune designs K5, a new hotel in Tokyo
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An Instagram hotspot in Tokyo is under threat, so snap it before it’s flattened
Designed by architect Kisho Kurokawa, the iconic Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo has become something of an Instagram pilgrimage for architecture enthusiasts. But as the building fell into a state of disrepair, the Metabolist landmark has long been in danger of demolition and the final decision is to be made by the building’s management society by vote
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Koichi Futatsumata gives an old business hotel a stylish minimal makeover
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Berlin gallerist Johann König heads east with Tokyo outpost
The Ginza gallery opens with an exhibition by photographer Juergen Teller exploring homesickness, German identity and his position as a European immigrant to the UK amid Brexit uncertainty
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Tour Tokyo's development ahead of the 2020 Olympics with Atelier Bow-Wow
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Adam Nathaniel Furman’s colourful vision for a Tokyo apartment
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Tokyo's Hamacho Hotel champions all things handcrafted
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Muji opens its largest standalone store topped with its newest hotel in Ginza, Tokyo
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Theaster Gates explores the troubling history of a coastal community forced out of home
For his first solo museum show in France, the Chicago-based artist dives into the dark past of the now-uninhabited Malaga Island off the coast of Maine
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Tokyo's Nohga Hotel Ueno champions local design
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Copenhagen's OEO Studio designs Tokyo's Nordic-influenced Inua restaurant
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BnA Studio group unveils its largest art-led property to date in Tokyo
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Charting the unique make-up of Japanese architecture
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The Millennials is a modern, updated version of Japan’s famed capsule hotel concept
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Tokyo’s Shibuya gets a new hotel
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The Moxy brand has debuted in Tokyo
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Danish brand Mikkeler opens a new location in Tokyo
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Designed by Kengo Kuma, Tokyo’s newest hotel is inspired by an immersive art exhibit
